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Gareth Powell

@gmmapowell

One of the few who recognize the total and complete pointlessness of life.

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Project Warrior: How Paramount beat Netflix in $110bn battle for Warner Ellison father and son viewed deal as a matter of survival to compete with tech giants that now dominate Hollywood

Starting the countdown clock until Paramount goes into administration...

Project Warrior: How Paramount beat Netflix in $110bn battle for Warner - www.ft.com/content/e352... via @FT

27.02.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry, wrong link. Should be theopera.co.nz

19.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cute penguin at the Opera reserve in Otago, NZ.

Cute penguin at the Opera reserve in Otago, NZ.

Spent the afternoon wandering around theopera.nz wildlife refuge near Dunedin.

19.02.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So sorry, what does it/they actually *do*. Is it an actual performance hack, or is it some kind of super-fast build server that they use or what?

03.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Hopefully this time it will be different."

🀣🀣🀣

30.01.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Time to Start Generating the iXBRLs Given that we now have something that works, it's time to start trying to generate "that" (or something like that) from the actual accounts ...

As you might expect, generating goes quite smoothly, albeit not particularly quickly:

ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com/2026/01/time...

30.01.2026 08:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Exclusive vs Inclusive Canonicalization For once, the SDST at HMRC weren't immediately able to help me. A couple of weeks have gone by, and their only comment was that the second ...

If you want to follow the whole plot of how I dug myself out of the hole I was in, you want to read the five posts starting here:

ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com/2026/01/excl...

29.01.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Now Let's Figure out the iXBRL So now we have two accounts documents: one reliably succeeds; the other reliably fails. So, what (apart from the obvious) is the differenc...

Finally, today, I managed to find (and manipulate) a computations iXBRL file that submitted successfully. So I'm now in a position to try and generate everything.

ignorancemaybestrength.blogspot.com/2026/01/now-...

29.01.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Returning to my corporation tax situation, I received a letter from HMRC the other day suggesting I might want to submit a tax return by the end of September.

While I haven't been commenting on it here, I have continued to work on this on and off over the past six months, and made some progress.

29.01.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keep on telling the truth there, George, and see if anyone pays any attention whatsoever.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

16.01.2026 13:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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McKinsey challenges graduates to use AI chatbot in recruitment overhaul Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm’s AI assistant and ability to adapt responses

Interesting.

www.ft.com/content/de78...

14.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On the Inertia of Organisational Change Or how "every organisation is perfectly designed to get the results it’s getting" - Craig Larman
12.12.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was just in the pub having lunch and then... #whammaggeddon

07.12.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords' filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry Christy faced months of bureaucratic trauma. For terminally ill people, the assisted dying bill must not create further obstacles, says campaigner Dave Sowry

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

03.12.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@chadweather.bsky.social Mossley fr Hartshead Pike.

Only a dusting here, though.

19.11.2025 10:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds

Yes, I do.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

17.11.2025 10:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Er, if you'd been listening at the time, you'd find that 99% of intelligent people predicted exactly this, because *checks notes* ah, yes, that is what a customs union is there for.

To reduce red tape.

So, er, fairly obviously, leaving a customs union is going to increase that.

10.11.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A classic pre/trans fallacy.

26.10.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home | API docs

You shouldn't have told me that, @octopusenergy.bsky.social:

developer.octopus.energy

23.10.2025 07:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why? What was I watching? Child porn?

Oh, I see those words are the title of a programme that should be in quotes.

07.10.2025 09:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Home Information Pack - Wikipedia

I would ask David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_In...

06.10.2025 07:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ziniki Deployer

I'm pleased to announce the release of Ziniki Deployer, the first (pre-beta) release of our cloud deployer tool.

It needs a lot of work, only supports AWS, but is open-source and extensible, although that needs refactoring. ☹️

The journey starts at deployer.ziniki.org

26.09.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A few PMs get billions to trade.

A few PMs get billions to trade.

Where do I get one of these Project Manager jobs?

22.09.2025 10:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Count me in. Still recovering from my interactions with Holacracy 20 years ago...

18.09.2025 14:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to say it's the other way around: it is age verification theatre.

It takes a photo of your face (or the nearest adult's if you're a child) and guesses your age.

It then claims to delete the photo.

14.09.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Email was one of those technologies that made us feel more productive but actually did the opposite,"

So true.

And Slack.

And...

11.09.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Computer setup with a laptop screen, two external monitors, a Pixel tablet and an old phone all displaying the same webpage in different aspect ratios.

Computer setup with a laptop screen, two external monitors, a Pixel tablet and an old phone all displaying the same webpage in different aspect ratios.

What is stopping you futzing with CSS layouts like this?

08.09.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This time it is different... this time it's the machine itself telling you it's different...

07.09.2025 18:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know you said no questions, but what does it (literally) mean?

04.09.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"kids these days need to learn how to learn .."

I'm sorry, I thought that was the assumption at least for "A" level.

Kids come out of college not knowing that? WTF are they doing there???

24.08.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0